The global recession continues to create new realities for students, institutions, and faculty members engaged in higher education. This blog chronicles those changes for academic / historical record purposes. Click on the URL at the end of each posting to view the complete news report.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Students at some private and community college students soon will feel the state budget pinch. They'll be on the hook for spring semester tuition that would have been covered by state-funded grants were it not for the budget impasse in Springfield. Twenty-one community colleges and 15 private colleges have told the Illinois Student Assistance Commission that they don’t plan on crediting Monetary Assistance Program grants for the spring semester, meaning students will have to pay that portion of their tuition bills on their own. Most of those schools – 59 percent – said they also didn’t credit fall tuition grants. Annual MAP grant awards average about $2,700 and are pledged to students before the school year begins.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-budget-impasse-map-grant-community-colleges-20160107-story.html